CONVICTS GIVE LIVES
Voluntary Inoculation With Hepatitis (Rec. 11.45 p.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 7. Voluntary experiments into the cause of a liver disease have claimed the life of a second inmate of the McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary. The warden. Mr F. Wilkinson, said Walter Harvey Wood, aged 39, died on Sunday presumably from the effects of the inoculation of hepatitis, a form of yellow jaundice. Wood was one of 200 penitentiary inmates who have submitted to inoculations as human guinea pigs. The inmates offered to help the Army find a cure for the disease, which struck many servicemen during World War II and has been prevalent in Korea. Last May another prisoner, Richard Higgins, aged 33, died -as a result of the test.
The warden said that of 200 men inoculated with the germ only about 15 per cent, actually contracted the disease.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26856, 8 October 1952, Page 9
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